TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Connell,Robert H.
TI  - The rhetoric of the book of Judges
T2  - Supplements to Vetus Testamentum,
SN  - 9789004275874
AV  - BS1305.2 .O36 1996
U1  - 221 s222/.32066 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Leiden, New York
PB  - E.J. Brill
KW  - Bible
KW  - Judges
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Rhetoric in the Bible
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-504) and indexes; Preliminary material; Robert H. O’connell --; Introduction; Robert H. O’connell --; Chapter One: Rhetorical Concerns of Judges’ Tribal-Political and Deuteronomic Schemata; Robert H. O’connell --; Chapter Two: Rhetorical Concerns of Judges as a Literary form; Robert H. O’connell --; Chapter Three: The Rhetorical Stra Tegy of Judges; Robert H. O’connell --; Chapter Four: The Rhetorical Situation Implied by Judges; Robert H. O’connell --; Conclusion; Robert H. O’connell --; Excursus One: Compilation, Redaction and the Rhetoric of Judges; Robert H. O’connell --; Excursus Two: Scribal Developments and the Rhetoric of Judges; Robert H. O’connell --; Appendix: A Compilational Stratigraphy of the Text of Judges; Robert H. O’connell --; Bibliography; Robert H. O’connell --; Index of Biblical References; Robert H. O’connell --; Index of Authors; Robert H. O’connell; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This volume describes how the rhetorical devices used in Judges inspire its readers to support a divinely appointed Judahite king who endorses the deuteronomic agenda to rid the land of foreigners, to maintain inter-tribal loyalty to YHWH's cult, and to uphold social justice. Matters of rhetorical concern interpreted here include the superimposed cycle-motif and tribal-political schemata, concerns reflected in the plot-layers of each hero story, the force of narrative analogy for characterization, the strategy of entrapment which foreshadows portrayals of Saul and David in 1 Samuel, and the relation between Judges' implied situation of composition and its compiler's intention. In addition to offering new insights into the rhetorical strategy of the Judges compiler, this book illustrates a new method for understanding how plot-layered stories work
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004275874
ER  -